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“Heinlein’s Juveniles are not alone in this handling of moral choice—many of the classic morality tales written for this audience, from Huckleberry Finn to A Wrinkle in Time to From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler to The Outsiders and His Dark Materials, share this moral choice mechanic, and it’s one of the reason these stories remain evergreen, generation after generation.”
― J. Daniel Sawyer, The Secrets of the Heinlein Juvenile: Uncovering the Hidden Magic of Perennial Young Adult Literature

“Every thinking being in the universe has his own troubles and his own history, and his actions may not, at first, make sense to you. You must make a good-faith effort to understand someone before you judge them,”
― J. Daniel Sawyer, The Secrets of the Heinlein Juvenile: Uncovering the Hidden Magic of Perennial Young Adult Literature